Best money I ever spent was hiring movers when I moved into my current home.

This is an important thing to know. As we age, preserving one's energy (and wear on assorted body parts) is worth scrimping and saving to afford. At 74, I wish I had learned this decades ago.

Hiring movers for specific needs is worth it.

Hire professionals is worth it

I could do a lot of things better if I had money to hire people to do them. I think this guy doubles as Captain Obvious.

I just hired movers for the first move in my life. I hired supposedly the best. I have never broken anything in a move, and I have moved a lot. In this move, I’m sure I’m not to the end of broken things and damaged surfaces. . Next time I hire a crew and they load how I tell them.

No its not, we got taken from our movers, moving from Auburn Ca to Hickory NC. Ripped us off for an extra $10,000

Your friend with a van and or pickup is no longer going to risk a slipped disk for bad pizza and Miller lite

At this point money is life as in if u don’t got it u will never be equal as some people

I take exception to this. Even seemingly legitimate movers hold people's s**t hostage for additional money, break things and claim it was like that etc. Lots of skeevie movers

It darned sure is.

Movers don’t cost that much and it is so much faster! Spent 300.00 for 3 men for 3 hours. They were done in 2 1/2 hours. Furniture exactly where I wanted it, no muss, no fuss.

…but if you do, make sure to do your research and pay for the insurance. We were in a bind and had to find a moving company quickly. As a rule, I had to be there the whole time they loaded up. I met the guys and saw how careful they were with our stuff so I felt confident in deciding to forego paying for the added insurance. What I didn’t know was that when you’re moving long distance, your stuff goes from that truck to storage and other trucks along the way. We had thousands of dollars of our belongings broken and stolen. They destroyed my grandma’s piano. (That was a whole emotional breakdown in itself) We had very little recourse because we denied the insurance. Lesson learned. Do your research and get the insurance.

Until they scam you out of a few hundred more dollars in exchange for your stuff.

Yup! Especially once you have kids…you can barely manage to pack in the weeks leading up to the move because the kids interfere. You cannot watch them and move furniture at the same time-you really can’t do anything else while watching them… it takes a lot longer to move all your heavy boxes and furniture and take multiple trips with the truck yourself. You are probably saving money by not damaging the furniture and having it done all in one day, rather than 3-4 days of truck rental and multiple trips and time off work.

I agree.

At some point in your late 30's, your friends start having back problems and other ailments that prevent them from helping you move, so movers become necessary. Also, by then, you may have kids and your parents may have made you get all your childhood stuff out of their house, so the amount of stuff you have to move is way beyond a couple pickup truck loads.

NOT. We hired movers for an interstate move, and at the other end, anything for the bedroom just got tipped into a huge mound in the middle of the bedroom floor. Their excuse was they just needed to take the boxes back.

Depends. We hired a company called ‘Two Men and a Truck’ and only one guy turned up and he had a bad back. Husband had to help him and dropped a heavy solid metal radiator on his foot. That was 27 years ago and it’s never been right.

Yes. Definitely!

Not worth it when they damage Grandma's Duncan Phyfe table and then refuse to pay out on the insurance you purchased.

I can relate. If you add the time you and your friends are not at work, it sums up very quickly, too. And then it doesn't seem so much money anymore.

What happens if you get there 2 days before the movers who got lost?

Yeah this is absolutely true. It does cost a bit so work that into your budget. The rationale here is you need to be healthy to function yourself and getting injured in the process hurts you more long term. Like throwing out your back for example. It may delay your plans a bit as you save up for it but if you're like me back in the day, I cannot afford to not work.

be lazy nice morale